[Mesorah] L'Sakkein Olam

[Richard]

R S Mandel
«The Chabad siddur is full of hypergrammatical "corrections," as others have noted, most of which did not originate with the Alter Rebbe but with the publisher.»

Just a tangential observation

Many/Most "changes" to minhaggim / nusahc I've seen have been hyper-corrections, often based upon mis-understandings.  

Illustration:  moving Akdamus from after the first passuk to before the K'riah.  The original placement was probably the hakdamah to the Targum, hence it's Aramaic format.

Then
• They got rid of Targum
• Viewed Akdamus as a hefsek
• Moved it forward
And then 
• Claimed because Akdamus was Aramaic it was highly Kabbalistic.

IMHO - All this was unnecessary confusion had they left it alone, as did the Yekkes / Heidenheim.


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Shalom, RRW